Rear suspension – Removal, strip, rebuilding and refitting

[The Arch Bishop]

It's in the hands of the mods as far as I can tell. Something to do with the migration to the new style forum. Sorry!

 

[althepal101]

Huzzah! All sorted. Ta much.

 

[XAF]

Errr, sorry guys, not for me. Still just numbers

 

[althepal101]

IPhone or Android by any chance? I'm Android and displaying ok!

 

[The Arch Bishop]

All good here! Cheers mods!

XAF - cached page? Try pressing CTRL + F5 to force refresh (presuming you're on a windows PC).

 

[XAF]

[post]345810[/post] All good here! Cheers mods!

XAF - cached page? Try pressing CTRL + F5 to force refresh (presuming you're on a windows PC).

iPhone I'm afraid. I'm an apple geek!

 

[XAF]

Well, I stand corrected! Just cleared my iPhone cache and it works! Yippee!! Thanks guys

 

[althepal101]

Right, so followed the guide, rebuilt with new monroe shocks and 40mm lowering springs. Dropped it slowly off the stands and the top of the struts protrude from the mount and move freely when bouncing. Shocks seem to be the right ones, springs are deffo for a puma. Wtf have I done wrong?

 

[althepal101]

 

[althepal101]

Hmm. Put the top mount on after the circlip mibbe and then the shafts won't be free to move up and down through the mount mibbe?

 

[AshLaw]

If the rear shocks look like the above with the springs unclamped - what could have happened / be the problem?

 

[YOG]

Looks like the springs are too short.

 

[AshLaw]

In that picture the circlip is not meant to be there.

Mountney have sent me a new set of GMAX Supersport suspension (which is what the above part is from) and looking at the new part the circlip should be about an inch further down the shaft in it's own channel (not where it is located).

 

[Norbert]

So i did everythibg asked and play was still there. Had to cut of thw metal top (round smaller part) by 7mms off. That made the whole assembly on the top mount sit tight and torsued to spec. Suspension suddenly started working as it should without any signs of shock just bimping into the body frame.

 

[Mark T]

Hi all, can anyone point me in the right direction where to get the circlip s for the top strut mount retainer from?
Part number below.
Do ford still stock them ?
Thanks.

 

[caprixpack]

https://www.arnoldclarkautoparts.co...i-rZ2Ok73r48ROTZT0Ps74cvaXBvbCCrAjMxCe_vKoSdY

 

[Mukamika]

Hi there, are your old shocks leaking or just an upgrade, if good I could be interested in them

 

[Mark T]

https://www.arnoldclarkautoparts.co...i-rZ2Ok73r48ROTZT0Ps74cvaXBvbCCrAjMxCe_vKoSdY

Ordered from the link but not checked the part numbers match, arrived today but wrong things